RE: MD the metaphysics of self-interest

From: Paul Turner (paul@turnerbc.co.uk)
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 09:38:43 BST

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    Hi David

    David M said:
    But would
    > you say that anything is fundamental to
    > the MOQ?

    Paul:
    What I meant by "fundamental" here was: that which everything is
    composed of, or in terms of a philosophy, that which everything must be
    described by.

    In a SOM everything is composed of mind or matter, and accordingly
    everything must be described in terms of a subject and objects.

    In the MOQ, everything is composed of value, and accordingly everything
    must be described in terms of value.

    The distinction I made is that anything that is *a pattern of* value is
    real, but it is value itself that is fundamental. Subjects and objects
    are described as patterns of value. Hence, subjects and objects are real
    but not fundamental.

    David M said:
    In a way Quality, DQ/SQ
    > is I guess, but this is only one possible
    > cut of reality I guess, it has a certain
    > advantage over the subject-object cut,
    > but there could be other useful cuts, say
    > between current experience and remembered
    > experience -which would tell us certain things about
    > experience but not as much as SQ/DQ.
    > Would you agree with this?

    Paul:
    There are certainly different ways of dividing reality. I think "current
    and remembered" comes close to Dynamic and static, actually.

    Cheers

    Paul

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